I think I have worked with some of these people!!!!
Here's another variant of stories of survival.
How DO these people survive....?
ONE Recently, when I went to McDonald's I saw on the menu that you
could have an order of 6, 9 or 12 Chicken McNuggets. I asked for a half
dozen nuggets. "We don't have half dozen nuggets," said the teenager at
the counter. "You don't?" I replied. "We only have six, nine, or
twelve," was the reply. "So I can't order a half dozen nuggets, but I
can order six?" "That's right." So I shook my head and ordered six
McNuggets.
TWO I was checking out at the local Wal-Mart with just a few
items and the lady behind me put her things on the belt close to mine. I
picked up one of those "dividers" that they keep by the cash register
and placed it between our things so they wouldn't get mixed. After the
girl had scanned all of my items, she picked up the "divider," looking
it all over for the bar code so she could scan it. Not finding the bar
code she said to me, "Do you know how much this is?" I said to her,
"I've changed my mind, I don't think I'll buy that today." She said
"OK," and I paid her for the things and left. She had no clue to what
had just happened.
THREE A lady at work was seen putting a credit card into her
floppy drive and pulling it out very quickly. When I inquired as to what
she was doing, she said she was shopping on the Internet and they kept
asking for a credit card number, so she was using the ATM "thingy."
FOUR I recently saw a distraught young lady weeping beside her car.
"Do you need some help?" I asked. She replied, "I knew I should have
replaced the battery to this remote door unlocker. Now I can't get into
my car. Do you think they (pointing to a distant convenience store)
would have a battery to fit this?" "Hmmm, I dunno. Do you have an
alarm, too?" I asked. "No, just this remote thingy," she answered,
handing it and the car keys to me. As I took the key and manually
unlocked the door, I replied, "Why don't you drive over there and check
about the batteries. It's a long walk."
FIVE Several years ago, we had an Intern who was none too swift.
One day she was typing and turned to a secretary and said, "I'm almost
out of typing paper. What do I
do? "Just use copier machine paper," the secretary told her. With
that, the intern took her last remaining blank piece of paper, put it on
the photocopier and proceeded to make five "blank" copies.
SIX I was in a car dealership a while ago, when a large motor home
was towed into the garage. The front of the vehicle was in dire need of
repair and the whole thing generally looked like an extra in "Twister."
I asked the manager what had happened. He told me that the driver had
set the "cruise control" and then went in the back to make a sandwich.
SEVEN My neighbor works in the operations department in the central
office of a large bank. Employees in the field call him when they have
problems with their computers. One night he got a call from a woman in
one of the branch banks who had this question: "I've got smoke coming
from the back of my terminal. Do you guys have a fire downtown?"
EIGHT Police in Radnor, Pa. interrogated a suspect by placing a
metal colander on his head and connecting it with wires to a photocopy
machine. The message "He's lying" was placed in the copier, and police
pressed the copy button each time they thought the suspect wasn't
telling the truth. Believing the "lie detector" was working, the suspect
confessed.
NINE A mother calls 911 very worried asking the dispatcher if she
needs to take her kid to the emergency room, the kid was eating ants.
The dispatcher tells her to give the kid some Benadryl and should be
fine, the mother says, I just gave him some ant killer..... Dispatcher:
Rush him in to emergency
Life is tough
It's tougher if you're stupid.
jo4hn <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:
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>
> FIVE Several years ago, we had an Intern who was none too swift.
> One day she was typing and turned to a secretary and said, "I'm almost
> out of typing paper. What do I
>
> do? "Just use copier machine paper," the secretary told her. With
> that, the intern took her last remaining blank piece of paper, put it
> on the photocopier and proceeded to make five "blank" copies.
>
*snip*
I can understand this one. Assuming the paper is stored in the paper
tray (and not in a box somewhere near the copier), it's much easier to
make 5 blank copies than take apart the copy machine's paper tray.
jo4hn, you might find this worth a chuckle:
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2009/10/08/9904647.aspx
Puckdropper
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reason why all trees have to be grounded..." -- Bored Borg on
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A man was walking down the hall of his corporation's headquarters when he
came upon the company CEO standing at the paper shredder with a stack of
documents, looking quite confused. Seeing an opportunity for some brownie
points, the man approached, introduced himself, and offered his help. "Oh,
thanks, I appreciate it", said the boss. "I'm really in a rush, I have a
meeting in a few minutes and my secretary's out to lunch." "All you have to
do", the man said, "is to put the papers in here and press this red button",
demonstrating as he spoke. As the papers disappeared, the boss said, "Thanks
again, you're a life saver. By the way, I need two copies of each".
Puckdropper wrote:
> jo4hn <[email protected]> wrote in
> news:[email protected]:
>
> *snip*
>
>> FIVE Several years ago, we had an Intern who was none too swift.
>> One day she was typing and turned to a secretary and said, "I'm almost
>> out of typing paper. What do I
>>
>> do? "Just use copier machine paper," the secretary told her. With
>> that, the intern took her last remaining blank piece of paper, put it
>> on the photocopier and proceeded to make five "blank" copies.
>>
>
> *snip*
>
> I can understand this one. Assuming the paper is stored in the paper
> tray (and not in a box somewhere near the copier), it's much easier to
> make 5 blank copies than take apart the copy machine's paper tray.
>
> jo4hn, you might find this worth a chuckle:
> http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2009/10/08/9904647.aspx
>
> Puckdropper
Good stuff. Mahalo is also a blessing: May you always be blessed with
sorta clean skivvies. That's according to jo4hn's polyglotic dictionary
of excellence.